I’m sorry, does this mean that students were taking tests unsupervised until now?

Yet the need for skills remained.

What kind of skills are needed to ask a non deterministic machine to code things one cannot understand in the first place?

This assumes that the owning class will let you make use of that time, which is and always has been untrue.

Also, I find it incredible that “coding” and “accounting” are now “mundane things”. Get off that ivory tower of yours, you definitely need to breath some thicker air.

This is exactly the kind of cluelessness I was talking about. Again, training is way more expensive than running models, and very obviously a rig that costs several thousands of dollars is something not many people have access to.

That’s not at all what the previous message said. You cannot call it a “programming language” and then add all these caveats that programming languages don’t suffer from.

If you mean the likes of COBOL, I’d say that’s hardly natural language.

I’d rather have no code at all, if I’m being honest.

Still terrible code.

I’ve seen bad coders trying to merge hundreds of lines of code where maybe ten were needed. They rely on more experienced devs to tell them how to fix that, just for these to copy and paste the suggestions given in Claude.

I mean if that’s the value someone provides, no wonder they fear for their future.

If natural languages were just another level of abstraction, we would already have a successful English like programming language.

You will learn to like something because you’re being extorted to use it.

Sounds about right.

Many people believe this, and it couldn’t be more wrong. It’s like saying that a product manager can code, if their tickets are detailed enough to give a general vision of a piece of software.

Implementation still matters. Context still matters. Vibe coded projects all follow these patterns where each change is a thousand lines of code out, two thousand in. And there’s a breaking point where reading and understanding these changes is not only unpractical, but also counterproductive.

But then, there’s the bigger question of language expressivity and determinism: even if LLMs could achieve a certain level of consistency of outputs given certain inputs, how do we make a natural language like English expressive enough, and more importantly, non ambiguous enough, to work like an actual programming language?

No local models will be as good as those offered by big corporations, ever. It’s just not physically possible. Even worse, you don’t seem to understand that running a model is not the issue, training it is.

Regardless, even if any of this wasn’t true, running LLMs on prem is something that’s only achievable by very few people worldwide. It would take generations for poorer countries to catch up, once again, so this AI race is effectively another attempt at exacerbating inequality, and frankly, it’s giving some strong “war for oil” vibes, people in richer countries happily ignoring what’s going on elsewhere because they are getting nicer things.

Job losses are a consequence of AI spending, not productivity increases. This is an economic issue. Everyone with a little money is trying to ride the wave, regardless of the consequences, while big corporations are positioning themselves for long term dominance.

Who’s going to train those models and with whose data?

I’m talking about the LTT staff.

Proof of this is that for ten years, they published zero videos specifically about Windows shortcomings, but they did I believe two separate Linux “challenges”, where the main conductor was Windows users complaining about Linux. And while I agree that some of the complaints were legitimate, many others, like UX differences compared to Windows, definitely are not.

You both used the same “white people” label, I would think any of the two could give me an answer.

I was wrong to think you were trying to debate in good faith. Hell, you didn’t even back up your own claims.

Have a good day.

That’s not what I’m asking. Also, I wasn’t using the term in any way or form.

To be fair, LTT has had a very long history of shitting on Linux, while giving Windows a free pass.

Happens all the time. Also, nerds tend to overestimate the amount of resources, like time or money, someone would put on something they care about.

Right here in Lemmy I had this interaction where someone argued that if one were to lose their photos because Google had an oopsie, it’s kind of their fault because they didn’t have a backup plan.